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- 24 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Developing Your Next CEO for the Family Business
also respected the strengths and culture of the company; not all Non-Family Outsiders do. In fact, some have disdain for the values and fundamental orientations of family companies—and these leaders usually fail, rather spectacularly.... View Details
- 24 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software
is a fundamental building block of everyday technologies. The increasing importance of FOSS throughout the economy became critically apparent in 2014 when the Heartbleed security bug in the OpenSSL cryptography library was discovered. By... View Details
- 20 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Marketing Mix Right
"Companies really need to pay attention to the effectiveness of their marketing instruments," Steenburgh says. "They need to look at whether they're creating new customers or whether they're just drawing customers away from competitors. It's a View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Jul 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?
theater and control is required to make people feel comfortable when fundamental operating systems change ." Narendar Singh Raj Purohit adds that " when things are getting out of control someone has to take initiative to give a... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 27 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution
implementation details, such as optimal plant location, rather than the fundamental soundness of investing so heavily in radials.14 The strategic question as to "whether Management wants to invest the substantial capital to provide... View Details
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
the Internet to their overall store model. Much like the story of the frog in the slowly boiling water, they are finding out late in the game that their physical store businesses are fundamentally unsustainable. Given the item assortments... View Details
- 04 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors
"entrepreneurial suicide." He explains, "If one sets oneself up in situations where you must 'succeed or die,' then your fundamental motivation must be called into question Instead of taking prudent risks to maximize your... View Details
Keywords: by Noam Wasserman
- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
simpler time. The global COVID-19 crisis has drastically changed the way people are relating to each other, isolating us in our homes and pulling us away from our social milieu. It is likely to fundamentally change how we think, behave,... View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
- 19 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Company Loyalty
you, their employer. The very nature of the relationship between employers and employees has undergone a fundamental shift: Today, workers not only don't expect to work for decades on end for the same company, but they don't want to. They... View Details
Keywords: by Lauren Keller Johnson
- 13 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding
Picture the Jamaican bobsled team going for the gold at the Winter Olympics. Or competitors in what seem fundamentally unbalanced battles: the Chicago Cubs versus the New York Yankees, Apple versus Microsoft, and Southwest Airlines versus... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
going to die, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Santana: It's not, but it is definitely changing. Streaming is one of the things that has fundamentally affected advertising and how brands speak to consumers. When we were living in a... View Details
- 06 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Intelligence: Adapt or Die
fundamental belief I have is that you can't separate strategy formulation from strategy implementation. You can't discuss changing strategy unless you are ready to discuss what makes people resist change and what part people could... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
a wider sense, Al's legacy was to provide an extraordinary role model for subsequent generations of researchers in business history and far wider. He was so influential because he asked questions that were fundamental and to which people... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?
you're ahead at that point. "So at the end of the day, can you play market maker, can Cambridge Incubator and Lycos and Intend Change play market maker for you by getting you to market faster? That's the fundamental question you've... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 01 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?
not be any sort of attack on this very fundamental right. On the other hand social media platforms still have an obligation to the public that they serve YouTube needs to redouble its efforts and be totally relentless in its quest to... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
provision of home office equipment, PPE, health benefits, salary increases, and promotions. 5. Communicate and empower Many of the approaches adopted by companies in our sample require fundamental changes in employee behavior, for... View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
authors explain the fundamentals of platforms, different strategies and business models, common errors, and platform battlegrounds of the future that involve competing technologies and implications for organizations. There is advice for... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
online and brick-and-mortar businesses? How do you build an experimentation culture? Professor Thomke introduces you to best experimentation practice, explain how that works at leading companies like Amazon and Booking.com, and address some View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
Photography by Jared Leeds "Our students use traditional academic theory to take on problems that have fundamental relevance in today's business world," says Janice McCormick, executive director of the HBS Doctoral Programs. "Many come in... View Details
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By: Roberto Verganti
Roberto’s research focuses on how to create innovations that are meaningful for people, for society, and for their creators. He explores how leaders and organizations generate radically new visions, and make those visions come real. His studies lie at the intersection... View Details